tpflug [tobi, human, engineer]

About Me

Hey, my name is Tobi! Nice to meet you đź‘‹

me enjoying coffee trying to look smrat

I live in South Germany together with my wonderful family and for the past 14+ years I have been working as a Software Engineer, Consultant and Engineering Manager in the IT industry.

Working With People, Teams And Individuals

My main interest is to work with people, both individually and on a team level to help identify problems, support with the solutions and to create value in a sustainable manner in a psychologically safe environment. I strive to be a servant leader and instead of cracking the whip to “make teams peform”, I create alignment and shared understanding around value and performance in the context of a team’s remit to help them deliver.

  • Agile: I believe in “individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and apply this in my work.
  • Hiring: I have gathered a lot of experience as Hiring Manager in different companies and care deeply about creating and conducting hiring processes and interviews that are actually effective by being fair, transparent and inclusive.
  • On-boarding: During my time at HolidayCheck I co-created and lead the HolidayCheck Apprenticeship Program. On-boarding and continued mentoring of employees is as rewarding to the individual as it is beneficial to the company, and I wish more companies would embrace the apprenticeship model.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Wherever I work, I try to foster a culture of knowledge sharing. This ranges from regular on-line pairing/programming or lightning talk sessions to organizing team off-site events that focus on a specific topic.
  • Facilitation: I enjoy facilitating meetings and events for groups of 3-6 people (planning meetings, retrospectives, post-mortems etc) up to 70 people and beyond (Engineering off-site, Open Space Conferencing etc)

Things I Care About At Work

Tools & Technologies

Over the years I have worked with a wide range of tools and technologies:

  • Functional Programming (Haskell and friends)
  • Nix/NixOS & Immutable Infrastructure
  • CI/CD (Docker, AWS, GCE, Jenkins, …)
  • Frontend Development (JS)
  • Microservices
  • Lots of Shell Scripts
  • Embedded C / Assembler
  • GUI Toolkits (Qt/C++)
  • Enterprise Java (Spring and friends)

What Else?

Some other things worth mentioning about myself

  • I enjoy facilitating events (for example NixCon 2018).
  • I am the organizer of BusConf - A FP oriented OpenSpace conference.
  • I occasionally speak at conferences (haskellX 2019: Nix workshop).
  • I’ve helped out in the haskellX program committee which was a really nice experience.
  • Currently working towards my running my first marathon
  • You can have a look at my CV if you want to.

How To Reach Me

  • You can find me on twitter as @tpflug
  • On GitHub i’m gilligan
  • Via E-Mail at tobias.pflug@gmail.com